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What a difference a storm makes. After an unusually long stretch of high pressure, it finally snowed. And with the arrival of the storm that broke the six-week sunny pattern, Christy, Joey, and I...
View Article“What It Takes to Climb Every Colorado ‘14er’ in Skis”
From the Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2015. We’ll leave it to the Wall Street Journal to ask that question, in a story that ran in Tuesday’s paper about Christy, 14ers, her training, and more. It was...
View Article2015 Elk Mountains Grand Traverse
On the route between Taylor Pass and Barnard Hut at daybreak. Christy and I completed another Elk Mountains Grand Traverse, our 14th, and 8th time as a coed duo. We just can’t stay away. The annual ski...
View ArticleTaylor and Star
Christy drops in for the third ski of the tour. They’re right in our backyard yet somehow Christy and I had never skied Taylor Peak or Star Peak. It was time. We caught a really good view of the...
View ArticleMount Raoul
On the summit of Mount Raoul, 13,803 ft. Castle Peak is the high summit in the distance. Christy, Joey, and I skied Mount Raoul last weekend, a local summit just west of Castle Peak named in honor of...
View ArticlePotosi Peak
Joey skis the top of the North Couloir on Potosi Peak while Christy watches from above. Potosi Peak, 13,786 feet, is at the east end of the Sneffels Range. Its flat summit is unique for the area and...
View ArticleCentennial Skiers – Pigeon & Turret
[I originally posted this on Centennialskiers.com, a report from our ski trip to Pigeon and Turret peaks.] On Turret’s summit. We sat on the tracks and waited. In all of our trips to the Weminuche...
View ArticleBelleview Mountain
A seen form Thunder Pyramid across the valley. the Northeast Couloir is marked. The stormy spring weather continues, and there’s wintery snow everywhere up high. We recently went to Belleview Mountain,...
View ArticleCentennial Skiers – Jagged Mountain
[I originally posted this on Centennialskiers.com, a report from our final Centennial ski trip to Jagged Mountain, #100. We did it!] On Jagged’s 13,824 foot summit. We climbed and skied Jagged...
View ArticleNew York Marathon – Action for Healthy Kids
The 2015 NY Marathon is on November 1. It’s been a quiet start to summer here on the blog, but that’s about to change. The first order of business, the New York Marathon. Sure, the race isn’t until...
View ArticleBuffalo Peaks Loop
We ran a cool linkup of trails in the Buffalo Peaks Wilderness outside of Buena Vista last weekend. The 25 mile loop circumnavigated the pair of 13,000 foot peaks known as the Buffalo Peaks, and it was...
View ArticleBrush Lakes and Electric Peak
We’ve always insisted that some of the easiest peaks can present the biggest challenges. We had twice failed to reach the grassy summit of Electric Peak, 13,598 ft. in the Northern Sangre de Cristo...
View Article2016 Hardrock 100
Summing up the Hardrock 100 is always a challenge, though when it goes well it’s admittedly easier. This year, my 8th time running, was relatively smooth. I finished in 28:52, my 3rd fastest time,...
View ArticleMount Elbert Loop
Looking for a moderate distance trail run that gets you up into the high alpine? Do you prefer loops to out-and-backs, so that you don’t have to travel along the same trail in both directions? The post...
View ArticleNolan’s 14 Recon
Thoughts and photos from some course recon days on the Nolan's 14 route. The post Nolan’s 14 Recon appeared first on Stuck in the Rockies.
View ArticleNolan’s 14 Recap
In 2016 I finished Nolan’s 14 in 55:37 following the route north from Mt Shavano to Mt Massive, a near 100 mile course that climbs 14 14ers along the way. The post Nolan’s 14 Recap appeared first on...
View ArticleRuby Range Traverse
The Ruby Range Traverse is a ridge traverse from Yule Pass to Ruby Peak across the nine named summits of the Ruby Range above Kebler Pass near Crested Butte, Colorado. The post Ruby Range Traverse...
View ArticleCottonwood Peak
Anchoring the north end of the long, narrow Sangre de Cristo mountain range lies Cottonwood Peak, 13,588 ft. a bicentennial best accessed via a rough jeep road that climbs high into Cloverdale Basin by...
View ArticleBryce Canyon National Park
We love Bryce Canyon National Park. We just returned from four days of trail running and backpacking there and we were blown away by the beauty. Utah has no shortage of incredible desert scenery, the...
View ArticleMoab
We like to say we’re just playing the hand we’ve been dealt. That is, when current conditions don’t allow for certain activities, just go with what’s working. In this case, we had such a warm, dry...
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